Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank who appeared to be surrendering

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Fascinating that the cash ISA limit is the most unpopular item in the budget. I would have thought it would be unpopular but not more so than e.g. freezing tax thresholds.

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

The story behind it: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

It's 'call a spade a spade' time with this stuff. These people don't care about protecting kids - they care about hatred. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2565...

this is one of the reasons not to do policy by poll or focus group

On a less flippant note, the rationale for that particular diplomatic post was to help maintain links with people of Polish descent in Siberia - quite a number, as the XIX and XX centuries saw a lot of Poles deported/jailed there.

delighted to announce that, after years of research, my team of scientists has successfully reversed ageing! it’s “gniega”

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Would watch.

I am just a small town political scientist, but I am not sure this is how it works. But then again, quite possibly the National Security Advisor, the Secretary of State and the Archivist of the United States knows better

This is the stark political cost of Labour's approach. I'd argue there's another loop (among many, I'm sure) around Brexit, which skews towards a low tax, low working rights, minimal public services, high banking secrecy model. Brexit is a weight pulling to the far right.

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses! Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

In Profits of Doom, @rbrooks45.bsky.social says the £252m PPE contract the UK gov't awarded to Tim Horlick’s Ayanda Capital in Apr 2020 triggered “perhaps the most egregious taxpayer-funded windfalls for the men at the centre of it” @privateeyenews.bsky.social www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/spe...

Private Eye's Richard Brooks has revealed how financiers behind Ayanda Capital (which is owned by a Mauritius-based holding company)—Tim Horlick, Nathan Engelbrecht, and Liz Truss adviser Andrew Mills—amassed £64m from UK taxpayers despite supplying faulty PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Idly wondering if the solution to racists 'wanting their country back' is for all countries to build theme parks where the bigots have to go and live, where technology is reversed 50 years and they have it all as they think they remember. Then tourists can come and pay to look at them.

Three new T-shirt designs just added to my online shop. Birmingham Central Library Camera Trinity Car Park www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts

This is true. They believe racism is wrong.

Yep, here’s the Australian case of this happening: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"The Deloitte report contained false citations, pulled from made-up academic papers to draw conclusions for cost-effectiveness analyses, and cited real researchers on papers they hadn’t worked on, the Independent found."

"A Canadian government-commissioned Deloitte health care report that cost one province nearly $1.6 million contains potentially AI-generated errors, marking the second country this year to allege the consulting firm’s fact-checking shortcomings."

Deloitte is at it again. To write one report with made-up references may be regarded as misfortune. To write two looks like carelessness.

It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.

if five people like this post I’ll get drunk this weekend and make this

The UN General Assembly resolution against torture was rejected by only three countries: the US, Israel, and Argentina, who remind the world that they oppose even the most basic principles of humanity.

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Reform love free speech while being perpetually offended any time someone asks them a very basic question. It's a curious paradox. Why doesn't he just laugh and say, "Of course he isn't" instead of getting so cross.

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

The OG Simon's Cat film!

Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.

Himes: "This shows Steve Witkoff almost literally sitting side with the Russians on this ... it's unimaginable to consider the fact that you would propose a peace deal that the Ukrainians didn't even know about."

🤷‍♂️💔😢

A small but significant step: Dutch national broadcaster NOS is leaving X. “The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread” over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...

'He's got to sell Ukraine to Russia' - Freudian by the President on that Air Force One clip.

Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gove has been an extremely poisonous influence on our politics. Undermining expert consensus on Brexit [had enough of experts, etc] and lying his way through the whole process in the aftermath of the Referendum. A travesty that he is on this panel of judges assessing political writing.

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

🚨It's time there was investigation into Russian interference in our politics. And the first person they should question is Nigel Farage.

"..... but with Muppets" should be a TV series. "Succession but with Muppets." You'd watch it, you know you would.

Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.

The actual context of that quote: "At school, categorically, on the record, you did not racially abuse fellow pupils?" "I would never ever so it in a hurtful or insulting way." So yes, yes he did. He just didn't think his 'jokes' were hurtful, & he remains ignorant of the harm his 'jokes' caused.

An irritated Nigel Farage said he would never racially abuse someone ‘in a hurtful or insulting way’, which raised more questions than it answered – 23 top responses. www.thepoke.com/2025/11/25/f...

“I have never directly, really tried to go and hurt anybody.”